“Oh, no you don’t,” I said through gritted teeth as I grabbed his ankle and yanked his leg out from under him.
The elf flailed and hit the floor again. This time I was on him before he knew what was happening.
I flipped him to his stomach and straddled his legs, wrenching one of his arms behind his back. He tried to buck me off, and I pushed on his arm until he howled in pain.
“Help!” he yelled. “Someone get this crazy human off me.”
At the sound of running feet, I looked up as two female trolls and a male elf approached us. The trolls stopped and looked on curiously, but the elf kept coming. Reaching into my back pocket, I pulled out the ID I always carried there and flashed it at him. “This is Agency business.”
He stopped a few feet from us, his nervous gaze flitting between my card
